Subject: Re: MIME Multipart Madness

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:18:33 -0500

{followup additionally crossposted to comp.mail.pine}

On 3 Jan 1997, John R MacMillan wrote on comp.mail.mime (excerpt):

[concerning mail with HTML attachments]

> But the rendering resources _are_ under your control.  Convince your MUA 
> that you would prefer text/plain to text/html in a message that is 
> multipart/alternative.

    Just for information, I use Pine 3.94 under a flavor of Un*x.  Pine
is MIME-compliant.  When it receives an email with both text/plain and
text/html using MIME standards, it can handle it.  Unfortunately, by
default it displays the unrendered text/html and tells me that the
text/plain is in an attachment.  It will show me this just dandy
provided I go through additional keystrokes.  So far I am unaware of
any configuration option to Pine (at my version level) which will
switch the order of preference.  I subscribe to one mailing list in
which this situation is beginning to show up more and more.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: William C Bonner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 01:16:26 -0600

> which this situation is beginning to show up more and more.

I can't remember the exact settings, but you CAN do it in your mailcap
file so that text.plain gets shown instead of text/html.

Wim.